【推荐2】Next Sunday is New Year’s Day. Mrs. Miller wants to buy some gifts for her family. She is in the shop now.

Mrs. Miller wants to buy a black schoolbag for her little son. Black is his favourite color. But all the schoolbags in the shop are brown. She wants to buy her daughter a yellow jacket (夹克), but the yellow jackets are all too big.

Her husband likes playing basketball. She wants to buy him a basketball, but there are only volleyballs (排球) and footballs in the shop.

Mrs. Miller wants to buy a sweater for her mother, but the sweaters are too small and the color is not beautiful. And she wants to buy her father a watch, but the price of the watches is not good. They are too expensive.

Mrs. Miller is very upset (难过的). She wants to buy special presents for all the special people in her family on New Year’s Day, but she buys nothing in the end.

1. What color does Mrs. Miller’s son like best?

A．Blue

B．Orange.

C．Yellow.

D．Black.

2. What does Mrs. Miller want to buy for her daughter?

A．A sweater.

B．A jacket.

C．A volleyball.

D．A schoolbag.

3. Which sport is NOT mentioned in the passage?

A．Football.

B．Basketball.

C．Tennis.

D．Volleyball.

4. Mrs. Miller doesn’t buy the watch because ________.

A．the price of the watch is high	B．she thinks the watch is too big
C．she doesn’t like the color of the watch	D．the watch is small

【推荐3】

Tom’s Shop
Bread	￥4.00/loaf	Buy five for￥18.00.
Rice	￥28.00/bag
Apples	￥7.00/kilo	Buy four kilos for￥25.00.
Chocolate	￥10.00/bar
Coke	￥5.00/tin
Milk	￥4.50/bottle	Buy three for￥12.00.

If you want to save more money（钱）, please come to my shop on Sunday afternoon.

1. Jack buys four kilos of apples, how much does he save?

A．￥1.00.

B．￥2.00.

C．￥3.00.

D．￥4.00.

2. Tony has￥15, he can buy ________.

A．five loaves of bread	B．two bars of chocolate
C．three tins of Coke	D．four bottles of milk

3. Jim can’t buy ________ in Tom’s Shop.

A．milk

B．apples

C．rice

D．chicken

4. When does Tom’s Shop have a big sale?

A．On Sunday morning.

B．On Sunday afternoon.

C．On Sunday evening.

D．Tomorrow.

【推荐1】With the development of economics (经济), the problem of left-behind children (留守儿童) has become a serious social problem. More and more people have realized we should do something to help them.

One of the biggest problems is that the children are all hungry for the love from their parents. Many of them can just get a call or a letter from their parents half a year, a year or even several years, which makes some children lost their parents’ faces. When they meet their own troubles, they have no one to talk with. Nobody gives them enough care.

Because of being too far away from their parents, the left-behind children’s study is the second biggest problem. From a survey (调查) about their study, only two per cent of the children get good results, while ten per cent of them are common and eighty-eight per cent of them are poor. What a pity!

There are also many other problems of the left-behind children, such as having no ability to protect themselves, unhealthy lifestyles, spending too much pocket money and being crazy about Internet and so on.

In a word, to solve all the problems of the left-behind children needs the government, families and schools to try their best together.

1. How many problems are mentioned (提及) in the passage?

A．Two.

B．Three.

C．Four.

D．More than four.

2. What’s the meaning of “some children lost their parents’ faces”?

A．Some children lost their parents.

B．Some children couldn’t find their parents.

C．Some children can’t remember what their parents look like.

D．Some children can’t get any information about their parents.

3. What is the best title of the article?

A．The Left-behind Children	B．What is Left-behind Children
C．The Problems of the Left-behind Children	D．How to help Left-behind Children

【推荐2】

Problems	Causes	Advice
Feel stressed	Too much homework. Don’t have enough time for their hobbies.	Make a plan for study and hobbies. Find time to relax.
Get short-sighted（近视）	Too much homework. Bad study habits.	Do homework or read in a correct way.
Fight with each other	Don’t know how to get on well with classmates.	Make more friends and understand each other.
Don’t like to study	The bad influence of computer games.	Play computer games just for a short time.
Get fat	Have more pocket money to buy snacks. Don’t like to do exercise.	Use your pocket money to do something meaningful （有意义的）. Do exercise every day.

1. How many main problems are there in the survey? ________.

A．Six

B．Five

C．Four

D．Three

2. What problem(s) is/ are caused by too much homework? ________.

A．Get fat	B．Fight with each other
C．Feel stressed and get short-sighted	D．Don’t like to study

3. If Simon is feeling stressed, he should ________.

A．do much more homework	B．make a plan for study and hobbies
C．buy some snacks	D．ask for more pocket money

4. ________ is a good way for students to stop fights.

A．Doing less homework	B．Playing computer games
C．Buying more books	D．Learning how to make friends

【推荐3】根据短文内容，将下面的句子还原到文中空白处，使短文内容完整、通顺（每个选项只能用一次）。

Most people don’t have interest in rainforests.    1    Secondly, they seem dark and dangerous. There are snakes and dangerous plants everywhere. However, Jeff Corwin is different from most people. He has been interested in rainforests since he was a child. Rainforests produce much of the air we breathe every day.    2    Since then, he has had one goal: to tell people the importance of rainforests. Besides, he is most interested in the special animals living there.    3    Many of the animals there cannot live anywhere else. The rainforest are important to these animals, and these animals are important to the rainforests, too. Rainforests are disappearing very quickly.    4    The plants and animals that used to live in these forests either die or must find a new forest to call their home. The good news is that there are a lot of people who want to save forests. The bad news is that saving rainforests is not going to be easy. It will take the efforts of many people working together.     5    He has started clubs for young people to teach ways to help protect rainforests. Jeff believes education is the best way to protect rainforests.

A．Jeff learned this fact in primary school.

B．First of all, they seem so far away from us.

C．Jeff wants to help people understand the valuable information.

D．Every year a large area of rainforest is cut down and destroyed(损坏）.

E．Rainforests are home to half of the animal groups in the world.

【推荐1】Alice, 35

I like shopping, but shopping with young children is not a good thing. I have to look after them while I’m shopping. I go shopping with my husband only when I buy something for him. When I look at a cheap dress, he always says, “It’s beautiful on you.” But when I have an expensive one in my hands, he always says, “I don’t think it fits you well.” So I often go shopping with my friends. It’s fun. I like shopping alone, too.

Maria, 26

I like shopping very much, but I never go shopping on weekends. There are too many people in shops. I don’t like shopping with other people. It usually takes me much time to buy things because I never buy the first thing I see. I always look around other shops to find the same thing cheaper. I’m good at finding cheap things. I don’t like buying food in small shops or street markets. I think food in supermarkets is fresh and cheap.

1. Both Alice and Maria like shopping __________.

A．with friends	B．alone
C．on weekends	D．on weekdays

2. Alice’s husband says, “I don't think it fits you well.” It means ___________.

A．the dress is not good for her

B．an expensive dress is always good

C．he wants his wife to buy a cheap dress

3. Why does it take Maria much time to buy things?

A．Because she likes going around.

B．Because there are too many people.

C．Because she wants to find the same thing cheaper.

D．Because she likes buying expensive things.

4. From what Maria says we know ___________.

A．many people like shopping on weekends

B．things are cheaper on weekends

C．people don't like shopping on weekends

D．she likes shopping on weekends

5. Maria likes to buy food __________.

A．in a small shop	B．in a supermarket
C．in streets	D．in street markets

【推荐2】An unsupervised（无人管理的） flower shop run by a college student in Beijing is open. People can buy flowers and pay for them on their smart phones through WeChat or Alipay.

Wang runs the unsupervised flower shop. He loves reading books in his free time. He says he runs the shop because he doesn’t need to spend much time on it. “People may go to the flower shop at any time,” he said. “If I run a common flower shop, I can’t read when they come.”

“Most young people like shopping in a free environment,” he said, “and they don’t want to be disturbed（被打扰）.” But what can the shoppers do if they have questions about kinds and names of flowers? “They can find answers through smartphone apps.”

Some people asked Wang if he worried someone would take away flowers with no paying. Wang said he thought about the problem at first. Though he doesn’t sell flowers in the shop himself, he goes to the shop at times. “My flower shop is small. It doesn’t cost much money, and it won’t be a big problem if there is a thief.” he said. And Wang also thinks most people are good.

Wang’s shop is special and popular. Use your head, and you will find a way to be successful.

1. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 2 refer to?

A．Selling flowers.	B．Reading books.
C．Cleaning the shop.	D．Answering shoppers’ questions.

2. Why does Wang open the unsupervised flower shop?

A．Because people ask him to do that.

B．Because he is too busy to run it.

C．Because he can spend more time reading.

D．Because people like shopping in a free environment.

3. What can people do if they have questions about the flowers?

A．They can know the answers by smartphone apps.

B．They can call Wang for help at any time.

C．They can leave a message for Wang.

D．They can ask their friends.

4. What’s the best title for the passage?

A．A special selling way	B．An unsupervised flower shop
C．A new kind of flower	D．Shopping in a free environment

【推荐3】Lots of people like going to malls (商场). Some people spend lots of time in malls and people call them “mall rats”. Mall rats shop for many hours a week. There are many reasons (理由). One of them is that they feel comfortable in malls.

The largest mall in the city is the mall called Meilianmei Shopping Mall. It has 286 shops, 6 nightclubs, 4 cinemas and a small modern park! There are parking places for 6,000 cars. About 60,000 people come into the mall and about 20,000 of them buy things there every day.

People love doing all their shopping in one place. Many of them go to the same mall every time. There are many malls around the city. Now people come to do many things in malls. They can shop, eat and play in a mall. They also see films at cinemas there. Some people get their exercise by doing the new sport of “mall walking”. Some even go to malls to meet friends.

1. Mall rats spend much time in malls maybe because ________.

A．there are many people in them.	B．they want to buy things there every day
C．mall usually have big green trees	D．they fell comfortable in them

2. About ________ people buy things in the city’s largest shopping mall every week.

A．200,000

B．42,000

C．140,000

D．20,000

3. People love ________ in one shopping mall.

A．buying all their things

B．parking their cars

C．doing sports

D．sleeping and playing

4. People in the city cannot ________ in malls.

A．shop

B．see films

C．do mall walking

D．have lessons

5. The best title (题目) may be ________.

A．Meilianmei Shopping Mall

B．Mall Rats

C．Big Shopping Malls

D．Going to Malls

【推荐1】阅读关于未来生活的信息，从A—E中选择相符合的话题。
    1     It will be in the air. Students will meet teachers and make friends there. The walls of it will be able to change colours. Sometimes it will be green. It’s good for eyes. Sometimes it will be blue to make students relaxed.
    2     You can’t see book shelves (架子). It is like a place to enjoy afternoon tea. There are comfortable chairs. When you sit at the table, put in some words into the screen before you. You will get anything you like to read.
    3     It can go everywhere, over land, over the water or even into the air. It’s not heavy and you can even carry it with you when you’re not driving.
    4     It will be quite warm or even hot all year. There will be no more light rain and cold wind in spring. There will be heavy rain and warm wind.
    5     People will not do much work any more. They’ll do light work. They will always have long holidays to relax.

A．The Future Classroom	B．The Future Holiday
C．The Future Car	D．The Future Library
E．The Future Weather

【推荐2】

Chores were not popular at my house. My children didn’t like to do chores. They always saw me do chores, but they hardly ever helped me do them.

A year ago, I made a game called “The Endless Chore Game”. It is really great. Here’s how the game works.

I make a card with forty squares (方框), and I write a different chore on each square. These chores can be easy and interesting like making dessert. Then my family rolls the dice (骰子) to decide what chores we have to do. The card also has a few squares with fun things, like watching TV and singing. If you are lucky, you can watch TV when the others are doing the chores.

My son likes the game very much. He goes to the kitchen happily every morning to do the game. It is really a good way to make my children do chores. You can have a try if you have the same problem as me.

1. What do you need to do “The Endless Chore Game”?

A．A card.

B．A dice.

C．A card and a dice.

D．A card and forty dice.

2. When does the writer’s family do the game?

A．In the morning.

B．In the afternoon.

C．In the evening.

D．We don’t know.

3. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．the writer only has one child

B．everyone in the writer’s family likes playing the game

C．the writer wrote this passage to parents

D．everyone in the writer’s family has to do the chores every day

4. The writer made this game to ________.

A．do fewer chores	B．tell us an interesting game
C．make her children happy	D．make her children do chores

【推荐3】A lot of sports persons did an excellent job during the Tokyo Olympics. What makes it a success? Some excellent sportsmen and their coaches share advice from their experiences.

Missy Franklin, swimming	Never forget being nervous is an unbelievable thing. It shows that you really care about what you are doing. Do not fear your nerves. Accept them and turn them into your own superpower. And then no one can stop you!
Brad Guzan, soccer	You have to accept difficulty and know that it won’t last. I try to use it as a chance to improve. You train harder and practise different skills of the game. Hard times make you stronger as a player and as a person.
Quan Hongchan, diving	“Born in a farming family, the 14-year-old diving girl, faced the hardship bravely,” her coach said. “Hard work pays off. Her perfect diving performance amazed the world. Besides, an Al training system also helped her train.”
Liu Yang, gymnastics	When training for a competition, train hard with your attention. The best results come from being fully prepared. That’s true for a competition or for getting ready to take a test. During the whole training, do not forget to have fun.
Su Bingtian, 100 m race	You won’t know if you can be better or not until you really get there. Now I’ve run faster than before, so I am sure that there is still room for improvement if I improve my speed in the final meters of races. I don’t really agree that this was already the best score for Asian-born runners.

1. According to the passage, who uses AI system to help training?

A．Missy Franklin.

B．Quan Hongchan.

C．Liu Yang.

D．Su Bingtian.

2. To Liu Yang, what is important when training?

A．Prepared well and have fun.	B．Train hard and be confident.
C．AI training system and attitude.	D．Work hard and do not fear nerves.

3. We can learn from the passage that ________.

A．being nervous means you have superpower

B．practising skills makes you better than before

C．starting training at an early age leads to success

D．a better score is possible for Asian-born runners